m4.xlarge · EC2 Prices

m General purpose

4 Generation 4

xlarge 4 vCPU · 16 GiB

$0.2400/hr

On-demand in Frankfurt

On-demand 1-yr 3-yr

4 vCPU

Xeon Haswell, 2.4 GHz

16 GiB

4 GiB per vCPU

EBS only

Local storage

High

Network bandwidth

750 Mbps

EBS bandwidth

x86_64

Architecture

Every way to pay

Prices in Frankfurt. Bars are relative to on-demand.

Plan	Monthly	Yearly	Saves
On-demand Pay by the second, no commitment	$175	$2,102
Reserved, 1 yr No upfront, this size and region	$120	$1,435	−32%
Reserved, 3 yr No upfront, this size and region	$88.33	$1,060	−50%

Plan

Monthly

Yearly

Saves

On-demand

Pay by the second, no commitment

$175

$2,102

Reserved, 1 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$120

$1,435

−32%

Reserved, 3 yr

No upfront, this size and region

$88.33

$1,060

−50%

What will it cost me?

Enter how you plan to run it.

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× m4.xlarge, on-demand

/mo

a year

You run these most of the time. A 1-year reservation bills every hour, and would still cost /mo.

Same usage on each plan	Monthly	Yearly
On-demand
Reserved 1 yr
Reserved 3 yr

Reservations bill every hour of the month, whether the instance runs or not.

Other sizes in this family

Price roughly doubles with each step. Pick a size to open it.

$0.120 large $0.240 xl $0.480 2xl $0.960 4xl $2.40 10xl $3.84 16xl

Price in every region

Cheapest in US East (N. Virginia). Moving from Frankfurt would save $350 a year per instance.

US East (N. Virginia) us-east-1$0.2000 −17%US East (Ohio) us-east-2$0.2000 −17%US West (Oregon) us-west-2$0.2000 −17%Asia Pacific (Mumbai) ap-south-1$0.2100 −13%Canada (Central) ca-central-1$0.2220 −7%Europe (Ireland) eu-west-1$0.2220 −7%Europe (London) eu-west-2$0.2320 −3%US West (N. California) us-west-1$0.2340 −2%

Europe (Frankfurt) eu-central-1$0.2400 base Asia Pacific (Seoul) ap-northeast-2$0.2460 +3%Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1$0.2500 +4%Asia Pacific (Sydney) ap-southeast-2$0.2500 +4%AWS GovCloud (US-West) us-gov-west-1$0.2520 +5%Asia Pacific (Tokyo) ap-northeast-1$0.2580 +8%Asia Pacific (Osaka) ap-northeast-3$0.2580 +8%South America (São Paulo) sa-east-1$0.3180 +33%

Not offered in Calgary , Central , US-East , Paris , Zurich , Stockholm , Milan , Spain , Hyderabad , Jakarta , Melbourne , Malaysia , New Zealand , Thailand , Hong Kong , Taipei , UAE , Bahrain , Tel Aviv , Cape Town .

Same shape, other families

Every instance with 4 vCPU · 16 GiB in Frankfurt, ranked by price.

Instance	Processor	Generation	Local disk	Price/hr	vs m4.xlarge
t4g.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 4	EBS only	$0.1536	−36%
t3a.xlarge	EPYC Naples	Gen 3	EBS only	$0.1728	−28%
m6g.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.1840	−23%
t3.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$0.1920	−20%
m7g.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.1955	−19%
m6a.xlarge	EPYC Milan	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.2070	−14%
m5a.xlarge	EPYC Naples	Gen 5	EBS only	$0.2080	−13%
t2.xlarge	Xeon Family	Gen 2	EBS only	$0.2144	−11%
m8g.xlarge	Graviton4	Gen 8	EBS only	$0.2151	−10%
m6gd.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$0.2180	−9%
m7i-flex.xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.2294	−4%
m5.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Newest	EBS only	$0.2300	−4%
m6i.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.2300	−4%
m9g.xlarge	Graviton5	Newest	EBS only	$0.2344	−2%
m4.xlarge	Xeon Haswell	Gen 4	EBS only	$0.2400	—
m8i-flex.xlarge	Xeon Granite Rapids	Newest	EBS only	$0.2409	0%
m7i.xlarge	Xeon Sapphire Rapids	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.2415	+1%
m5ad.xlarge	EPYC Naples	Gen 5	150 GB NVMe	$0.2500	+4%
m8i.xlarge	Xeon Granite Rapids	Newest	EBS only	$0.2536	+6%
m7gd.xlarge	Graviton3	Gen 7	237 GB NVMe	$0.2570	+7%
m5d.xlarge	Xeon Skylake	Gen 5	150 GB NVMe	$0.2720	+13%
m8gd.xlarge	Graviton4	Gen 8	237 GB NVMe	$0.2776	+16%
m7a.xlarge	EPYC Genoa	Gen 7	EBS only	$0.2777	+16%
m5n.xlarge	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 5	EBS only	$0.2820	+17%
m6id.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$0.2856	+19%
m8a.xlarge	EPYC Turin	Newest	EBS only	$0.2916	+22%
g6f.xlarge	EPYC Milan	Gen 6	100 GB NVMe	$0.2970	+24%
m9gd.xlarge	Graviton5	Newest	237 GB NVMe	$0.3026	+26%
m8id.xlarge	Xeon Granite Rapids	Newest	237 GB NVMe	$0.3142	+31%
m5dn.xlarge	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 5	150 GB NVMe	$0.3240	+35%
m6in.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	EBS only	$0.3299	+37%
m6idn.xlarge	Xeon Ice Lake	Gen 6	237 GB NVMe	$0.3791	+58%
m5zn.xlarge	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 5	EBS only	$0.3957	+65%
im4gn.xlarge	Graviton2	Gen 4	1.9 TB SSD	$0.4338	+81%
m8azn.xlarge	EPYC Turin	Gen 8	EBS only	$0.4947	+106%
d3en.xlarge	Xeon Cascade Lake	Gen 3	28 TB HDD	$0.6930	+189%

Specifications

API name: m4.xlarge
Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 (Haswell)
Local storage: EBS only
Family: General purpose
Clock speed: 2.4 GHz
Network: High
Generation: Gen 4
Architecture: x86_64
EBS bandwidth: 750 Mbps
vCPUs: 4
Memory: 16 GiB
GPUs: None